Wow, you understood everything but like ten words? That's impressive! I didn't know some of these words, either. I had to look up Faust, too, if you can imagine!

And now I have to also remember it's die Faust.

Saim wrote:sitzen - to hit?

I suggest translating this as 'to lie' in this context and would attempt to translate "unsere Lyrics sitzen tief" as 'our lyrics lie deep'. Or maybe even just 'are' is a better translation: our lyrics are deep.

vijayjohn wrote:Wow, you understood everything but like ten words? That's impressive! I didn't know some of these words, either. I had to look up Faust, too, if you can imagine!

I didn't know the word Faust but the meaning was clear from the music video (I knew gehen and hoch and in the video they're raising their fists; this group has pretty lefty lyrics). I think the number of Anglicisms (Beat, Sound, Release) and placenames (Quito, Cairo, Berlin) also helped, not to mention that there are still a couple of verses left.

I suggest translating this as 'to lie' in this context and would attempt to translate "unsere Lyrics sitzen tief" as 'our lyrics lie deep'. Or maybe even just 'are' is a better translation: our lyrics are deep.

You may be right, although I think this meaning provided by Wiktionary makes just as much sense:

(intransitive, colloquial, of a strike, a comment, etc.) to hit home; to have a significant effect

The meaning of the components already gives you an idea, but it's really:schieflaufen - go wrong

Saim wrote:

I suggest translating this as 'to lie' in this context and would attempt to translate "unsere Lyrics sitzen tief" as 'our lyrics lie deep'. Or maybe even just 'are' is a better translation: our lyrics are deep.

You may be right, although I think this meaning provided by Wiktionary makes just as much sense:

(intransitive, colloquial, of a strike, a comment, etc.) to hit home; to have a significant effect

You probably already understand this, but because it's not completely clear from your translations: "ist am Beben" doesn't mean something like the hall is located near an earthquake or something, but this is just a progressive form of the verb "beben" (which is substantivised in this construction) rather than the noun "Beben".

kevin wrote:You probably already understand this, but because it's not completely clear from your translations: "ist am Beben" doesn't mean something like the hall is located near an earthquake or something, but this is just a progressive form of the verb "beben" (which is substantivised in this construction) rather than the noun "Beben".

I imagined that from the context but wasn't sure about the exact grammar. Are these progressive forms always capitalised as if they were nouns?

Saim wrote:I imagined that from the context but wasn't sure about the exact grammar. Are these progressive forms always capitalised as if they were nouns?

It's not only as if they were nouns, but they are nouns. The form "(das) Beben" is not a progressive form per se, but just a nominalised infinitive, roughly corresponding to the English gerund. It's only the construction "am Beben sein" (literally: "to be at the shaking") that uses it to express a progressive meaning.